The search for New Zealand’s best cheese begins
Date: 15 Feb 2012The crème de la crème of New Zealand cheese will be named at the end of this month at New Zealand’s only national cheese competition, the 2012 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards. The 2012 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards is a celebration of local cheesemaking honouring technical excellence in the manufacture of New Zealand cheese. Now in its ninth year, the competition is set to be bigger and tougher than ever with a record number of New Zealand cheese ... more
Cuisine Artisan Awards 2012 recognise uniquely Kiwi flavours
Date: 15 Feb 2012New Zealand artisan food producers are being inspired by a host of international flavours but it is a distinctly Kiwi product from a Christchurch-based artisan that has been crowned Supreme Winner in this year’s Cuisine Artisan Awards, announced today (15 Feb). The fourth annual Cuisine Artisan Awards, proudly supported by Caffe L’affare, attracted a huge number of entries from small artisan food producers from around the country, with the judging panel of top food experts ... more
Young chefs head to Melbourne to do New Zealand Proud
Date: 13 Feb 2012Four Kiwi trainee chefs are gearing up to take on Australia’s best in the Fonterra Foodservices Proud to be a Chef Australasian final in Melbourne later this month (Monday 27 February – Thursday 1 March). The chefs are: Lyle Robertson from Auckland who studies at AUT and works at Euro; William Mordido from Auckland who studies and works at SKYCITY; Zac Saunders from Lower Hutt who studies at WelTec and works at Gusto Bistro; and Zane Neutroski from Christchurch who studies ... more
Better thinking brings sweet rewards to confectionary manufacturer
Date: 8 Feb 2012The international confectionary company behind the popular Mentos and Chupa Chup sweets has this month received the same coveted Herrmann International Whole Brain® Thinking award that was awarded recently to Telecom New Zealand. For the past two years Perfetti Van Melle USA, the world’s third largest confectionary group employing over 17,000 people, has been putting Herrmann International’s Whole Brain® Thinking framework to work throughout their business, and the ... more
Schools take an early bite out of fundraising
Date: 7 Feb 2012Schools throughout New Zealand are being given the chance to kick off their fundraising year with help from Muffin Break’s Great Bake Sale! Students at schools around the country are being invited to enter their school into the Great Bake Sale through Muffin Break’s Facebook page. Then all they have to do is rally their friends and family to vote for their school. The winning schools from the North Island and South Island will each win 500 Muffin Break muffins to sell to ... more
World champ to judge NZ's best lamb
Date: 2 Feb 2012One of New Zealand's fastest females on a bike, 2011 Supercross World Cup Champion, Sarah Walker, will judge the 2012 Beef + Lamb New Zealand Ltd Golden Lamb Awards (aka the Glammies) in Wanaka on March 9. The competition, sponsored by Pfizer Animal Genetics, aims to find the best lamb New Zealand farmers and retailers have to offer. A record number of entries have set a precedent this year. Nearly 150 entrants are eagerly waiting to hear if they are one of the 20 finalists going ... more
Monteith’s CheeseFest
Date: 23 Jan 2012Where: The Langham Auckland 83 Symonds St When: Wednesday 29 February 2012 5pm – 9pm Price: $30 at eventfinder.co.nz or $35 at the door What: Enjoy sampling over 400 of New Zealand’s finest cheeses. For one night only New Zealand’s best cheesemakers will showcase their award-winning cheeses at Monteith’s CheeseFest, the largest cheese event under one roof. Cheese lovers will have the opportunity to sample New Zealand’s finest ... more
Cream of the crop: Nosh Hamilton Pavlova Competition winner announced
Date: 19 Dec 2011Jackie Bennett (above, centre) has produced the overall winning Pav in Nosh Food Market’s first annual Waikato Pavlova competition. The secret to a winning pav: “Put it in a hot oven at 180 degrees for five minutes, then turn the oven off and leave the pav inside for one hour. And that’s it,” says Jackie. The inaugural competition involved 15 “exceptional” entries according to judges Mayor Hardaker, Vanilla café owner and food ... more
Just Juice’s premium new product wins top award
Date: 7 Dec 2011A new premium range from Just Juice has only just hit the supermarket shelves, but that hasn’t stopped it winning its first award. The Kiwi juice company launched its Just Juice Orchard range this month – a premium product range incorporating three delicious flavours – Sun Kissed Orange, Farm Style Apple and Summer Strawberry & Kiwifruit. And already the range is a hit, with Just Juice Orchard Summer Strawberry & Kiwifruit picking up the Youth Choice ... more
EGGS cracks it: the Nosh Pavlova Competition
Date: 6 Dec 2011Fourteen year old Epsom Girls Grammar School (EGGS) student Alexa Hindson has produced the overall winning recipe in Nosh Food Market’s third annual home-made pavlova competition. And to cap off a cracking good day for the Auckland school, Alexa also took out the children’s section while fellow student Britta van Thiel was runner up. The girls’ teacher Kathy Henley-Smith was runner up in the overall section. The winner of the Best Dressed pavlova prize was ... more
